I thought first graders wanted their moms to come to school things, so I was a little surprised and sad when Joe's reaction was an unhappy "Ohhhh, Why!"
He reluctantly took the slip back to school.
A few days before the field trip Joe came home and happily handed me a note about the field trip. Joe showed me the list of kids I had assigned to my group and told me that because I was the mom coming he gets to be the group leader. So that made it a really good thing that I was coming.
My group was Joe, Charlie, and Max. My friend Angela had two boys in her group ,Cooper, and Gibson so we decided to go around together.
The weather forecast for the day of the field trip had been saying rain all week. So I picked up some rain ponchos at the dollar store for our group. I am really glad I did because, it made it really easy to keep track of the boys, and it rained the entire time we were there. The kids didn't seem to mind the rain though.
We started out at the tigers. They were eating when we got to them and the boys thought that was great.
I loved the new baby elephant.
There was a special dinosaur exhibit going on at the zoo. All over the zoo were animated dinosaur statues.
They had this one for the kids to climb on for a picture. If you look at the dinosaurs mouth you will see that Joe is not the only joker in the class. 
These two dinosaurs were their favorites, because they sprayed water. The boys loved this. 
The original plan was to go to a park after the zoo and have a picnic lunch, but because of the rain we just headed back to the school.
But the kids still got a little bit of a special lunch, because they got to eat it in the classroom.I am glad I got to go on the field trip. It was a little cold and wet, but I loved being with Joe and his friends. I hope he was glad I came too.
